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Meet the teachers who will lead the Summit
Janina Fisher
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Mind/Body Approaches to healing Attachment Trauma
Peter Levine
Somatic Experiencing®
Working Through Body Disconnection: How to Help Your Clients Reconnect
Efu Nyaki
Somatic Experiencing®
Trauma lives in the body. Introducing somatic practices into therapy
Gabor Maté
Compassionate Inquiry®
Compassionate Inquiry: Deepening the Healing Process
Deb Dana
Polyvagal Theory
Introducing Polyvagal Theory in the Therapy Room
Elia Mrak
Guided Somatic Explorations
Guided Somatic Exploration with Elia Mrak
1-day Somatic Summit
- 1. Including the Body in Therapeutic Practice / Janina Fisher
- 2. Trauma lives in the body. Introducing somatic practices into therapy / Efu Nyaki
- 3. Working Through Body Disconnection: How to Help Your Clients Reconnect / Peter Levine
- 4. Compassionate Inquiry: Deepening the Healing Process / Gabor Maté
- 5. Introducing Polyvagal Theory in the Therapy Room / Deb Dana
- 6. Guided Somatic Exploration / Elia Mrak
- 7. Invitation to join our 3-Month Online Training / Michael Pasterski
The Somatic Summit
Learn how somatic approaches to therapy can enhance your practice.
Incorporating somatic work into therapy sessions is crucial for mental health professionals. However, implementing new strategies can be challenging.
Sign up and gain access to five interviews with renowned mental health experts: Janina Fisher, Deb Dana, Efu Nyaki, Peter Levine, and Gabor Maté. Deepen your understanding, acquire somatic tools, and engage in self-practice with a somatic exploration session led by Elia Mrak.
1. Including the Body
in Therapeutic Practice
Janina Fisher
During this session, you will learn:
- How to create an increased sense of safety in the body during talking therapy?
- How to address parts of us that speak non-verbally through emotions and sensations?
- How to start integrating body-based interventions into trauma therapy?
2. Trauma lives in the body: Introducing somatic practices into therapy
Efu Nyaki
During this session, you will learn:
- Why it’s important to use somatic practices in trauma therapy.
- How to address the skepticism of our clients towards somatic work.
- One Somatic Experiencing technique that you will be able to use in your sessions right away.
- What are some of the ways to use somatic tools while doing online sessions?
3. Working Through Body Disconnection: How to Help Your Clients Reconnect
Peter Levine
During this session, you will learn:
- Exploring the roots of body disconnection: How trauma and stress lead to physical numbness.
- Understanding body disconnection: Identifying signs of numbness caused by trauma and stress.
- Introducing somatic interventions: Basic techniques to help clients begin reconnecting with their bodies.
- Discussing the initial steps in using bodily awareness to aid trauma healing.
4. Compassionate Inquiry: Deepening the Healing Process
Gabor Maté
During this session, you will learn:
- What is Compassionate Inquiry and how it works as a therapy modality,
- How to enhance your perception of what is not being revealed overtly,
- How to enable clients to access emotional states through body awareness.
5. Introducing Polyvagal Theory in the Therapy Room
Deb Dana
During this session, you will learn:
- What is polyvagal theory, and why has it become so popular in the therapy space?
- Why it’s important to bring the nervous system into the therapy process?
- How to begin to speak the polyvagal theory language and invite clients to become curious?
- How can polyvagal theory inform your practice even before you get trained in it?
6. Guided Somatic Exploration
Elia Mrak
During this guided session, you will:
- Support our awareness through gentle movement.
- Come into the relationship to ourselves, each other, and the space around us.
- Explore how our breath supports our movement, and our movement supports our breath.
Meet the hosts
Tisha Shull
Tisha Shull is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor specializing in treating complex trauma, anxiety disorders and working with adults healing from past abuse and sexual trauma.
She is a Level 3 trained IFS Therapist, and has been a Program Assistant for many IFS trainings internationally. She is the Co-founder of IFS Vermont, an organization dedicated to provide training, community and opportunities to share the IFS Model. Tisha is the Co-host of the popular podcast, IFS Talks, and has interviewed many leading minds in the field of psychology. She has created content and taught IFS trainings and workshops online and in-person.
She is trained as a Cranial Sacral Therapist and Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Teacher and is pursuing training in Dance Movement Therapy. She loves carving woodblocks, looking at the stars, rock climbing and back-country snowboarding. She lives and works in Burlington, Vermont with her partner Alex, daughter Litza, and dog Zeke.
Michael Pasterski
Michael is a Certified IFS Practitioner from Poland. He is the founder and CEO of Life Architect, IFS Poland and the Foundation for Conscious Education.
He is the author of "Insight. Road to Mental Maturity" - a book about the skill of looking into our inner worlds. Over the past 10 years, he published more than 400 articles on his Polish blog Michalpasterski.pl, which attracts the attention of more than one million readers a year. You can find an English version of this blog on Pasterski.com.
He leads retreats in Bali and Thailand with a program based on his book. He has a vision for an alternative school that will initiate a shift in the education system and is making the first steps toward this dream.
After work, he loves being a father of a 2-year old Aurelia, enjoys travelling (mainly to south-east Asia) and is an advanced meditator.
Vincentia Schroeter
Dr. Vincentia Schroeter is a licensed psychotherapist in the USA, specializing in Bioenergetic Analysis. She was the coordinating trainer of the Southern California Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis (SCIBA) for many years and past editor (2008-2018) of the clinical journal of Bioenergetics.
As a member of the international faculty, she has taught in Europe, South America, Canada, and Asia.
Vin has written three books: Bend Into Shape, Techniques for Bioenergetic Therapists (co-author: Barbara Thomson) (2011); Communication Breakthrough, How Using Brain Science and Listening to Body Cues Can Transform Your Relationships (2018); and Tilt: Seeking Balance in Troubled Times (2021).